7/4/2015 12:00 AM
Managing Greece
The outcome of a popular vote tomorrow in Greece will help define the next steps in that country’s debt crisis. Negotiations between Greece’s populist government and other European nations and the international financial community are at an impasse. …

7/4/2015 12:00 AM
July 4, 2015
With the Confederate battle flag a spurned relic in the wake of the Charleston church massacre, the American flag also has drawn scattered protests in recent weeks. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan denounced it as another symbol of slavery, and protesters burned it in Brooklyn and Charleston. …

7/4/2015 12:00 AM
Lump of coal
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark rulings at the end of its just-concluded term were mostly correct and in fact vital. But in a case involving coal-fired power plants that has special resonance for Ohio and Michigan, the high court got it regrettably wrong. …

BY JACK LESSENBERRY
BLADE OMBUDSMAN
IRONWOOD, Mich. — Whatever your politics, same-sex marriage is now fully legal everywhere in America, and will stay that way. Most Americans support same-sex marriage, but a lot of others — such as people in Ironwood in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula — don’t care much. …

7/3/2015 12:00 AM
War-crimes charges
In a scathing new report, the United Nations accuses Israel and the Islamic terror group Hamas of war crimes during their clash last summer in the Gaza Strip. Each party bears responsibility for its actions and should spare no effort in addressing the U.N.’s concerns. …

7/3/2015 12:00 AM
Big payday
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The University of Toledo’s new president, Sharon Gaber, is paid more to run UT than the President of the United States earns to run the country. On top of her $450,000 annual salary, she gets a million-dollar house in Ottawa Hills, a new Jeep, and $80,000 in annual retirement compensation — mostly on Ohio students’ and taxpayers’ …